London, British Ornithologists' Union, 1909. 8vo (22.4 x 14.4 cm). iv, 226 pp.; 42 portraits, one plate with facsimile writings. Later red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.

A rare volume from the one of the world's longest-running and most influential ornithological magazines. Issues from the earlier years, especially, with fine plates by Keulemans, Grönvold and others, are very uncommon and sought-after. But this 1909 Jubilee volume, with portraits and short biographies of the foremost members of the British Ornithologists' Union, is quite uncommon and sought-after too. It includes a list of all members, including those deceased, up to 1909, and 40 portraits, including the leading ornithologists of their days, such as Henry Eeles Dresser, Thomas Caverhill Jerdon, Osbert Salvin, Philip Lutley Sclater, and Richard Bowdler Sharpe, but also Alfred Russel Wallace, and the explorer John Hanning Speke. The binding is in "Ibis red". A very good, complete copy. BM(NH) Supplement, p. 492 [states 1912]; Nissen IVB 476.